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Letters to Cripto: #35
Dear Cripto:
I know you don't like talking about your past, and I realize your boss, meaning SuperCat, will ding you with a demerit and a hefty sum of cash to go with it if you dwell on it and be negative. I feel bad mentioning this to you, but I will go ahead and do so because I had a question about your grandmother, and it runs the risks of you being a negative Nancy, or a negative Nathan, as the case may be.
My question is this: was your grandmother the way she was her entire life, or just as an OAP (old age pensioner)? Then again, you're American; you don't use that term, do you? Here in Ireland (and in the UK), we use this term to refer to somebody who has retired from the workforce and is drawing a pension, traditionally with people 65 and older. There are other uses for the term, though.
But I ask the question because around where I live, if an elderly person is discovered to come off angry and bitter or otherwise demanding, ultimately coming off the way your grandmother did, they are said to be "pulling off a Chloe." This insulted my grandma because her real name is also Chloe. Her surname isn't Clements, however; it is Johnston. She's nothing like your grandma, but I had to clarify to her that it wasn't her they were talking about, and so, she was not framed for anything. She has problems coping with the modern world as many of the elderly often do, but she's at least willing to learn new things, and she encourages everybody to live life for Jesus as He really intended it. Your grandma, by contrast, had the doctrine all wrong, and kept making it all about her.
In any event, I know you're a busy tiger, but here in the Republic of Ireland, you reign supreme as the nation's favorite rock star, although we love your band as a whole. It gives the rest of us somebody to look forward when your tour Europe, especially when you consider the fact the human performers of your genre have pretty much lost all credibility.
I hope the question has not been offensive to you. I'm sorry if it was.
Signed,
Anna Johnston, age 33 (human being)
Dublin, Leinster, Republic of Ireland
P.S. I'm a Christian, and my parents just converted for the first time. My grandma Chloe was already saved; she got saved at the age of six.
Cripto's response:
Dear Anna:
The boss (Super C) has asked the public to be mindful of their questions because of the fact he dings us for being negative all the time and dwelling on the past. This is why I frequently show him some of the fan mail I get, so that if necessary, he and I can discuss how to reply to it without crossing the line. However, your question was not offensive to me because I see that all you want to do is learn from the mistakes so that the past is not repeated, so we forgive you. Also, thank you for the trivia; I had heard the term OAP before, but wasn't sure what that meant. I usually just use the term "senior citizen" for the elderly. I respect them, and in some cases, they know the best directions to take in life.
Your question was, "Was my grandma the way she was her whole life, or just as an elderly person?" She had issues her whole life to some extent, so I guess the answer is her whole life. It didn't become problematic, however, until she got to be of old age, because she couldn't cope with the loss of her husband when he died. She had always put too much effort into the wrong thing, but in my case, it was all about getting me to live a normal life in the form of working a normal job and playing the piano at her church. (She originally wanted me to be a traveling concert pianist, but gave up that wish when she heard a news story about one that died in a plane crash, and she assumed that would happen to me. Well, I'm not dead.) By no means was I good enough to play at the professional level, let alone the level of the Forsythians. However, I found that the guitar was really the instrument I was born to play, but she kept saying it was to be the piano.
She never gave an explanation as to why she tried to control me so much, but we can all be thankful that in the end, she did make amends with me and with everybody. So her story is a sad one, but with a happy ending.
She eventually confessed she just wanted something to brag about to draw attention to herself, because she thought she had something to gain from the days when I did play piano. Proof of this came when she'd drop by our house unannounced, bringing one or more of her church friends with her, and I'd have to play something to please her because she wanted her friends to hear me. But what did she gain from me playing piano? Absolutely nothing!
Everything has thankfully gone uphill for me since those days, but the good news is that because her church keeps records of conversions and baptisms, Grandma was saved. So we will meet again when we all get to heaven, and what a day of rejoicing that will be.
I thank you for writing to me, and congratulations to your parents for making that life-changing decision. I can tell you I was about seven or eight when I made that decision, so people often ask if I abandoned the faith because I sing as the frontman for Furry Fury. Well, no. I didn't. Our music appeals to the broadest amount of people we can appeal to, but we always keep it clean. But I never really rejected the faith. I just sort of forgot about it. Does that make sense?
Thanks again for your letter, and I wish nothing but the best for you and your family. We (Furry Fury) love traveling when we can, and we know a huge majority of our fans from Europe come from the UK and Republic of Ireland. I think the biggest amount of our fans from nations with languages I can't speak come from Sweden. I don't have to tell you why that is.
Yours truly,
Nathan Knight, a.k.a. CriptoCat (Cripto for short)
Frontman for the rock band Furry Fury
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Letters to Cripto: #35
Dear Cripto:
I know you don't like talking about your past, and I realize your boss, meaning SuperCat, will ding you with a demerit and a hefty sum of cash to go with it if you dwell on it and be negative. I feel bad mentioning this to you, but I will go ahead and do so because I had a question about your grandmother, and it runs the risks of you being a negative Nancy, or a negative Nathan, as the case may be.
My question is this: was your grandmother the way she was her entire life, or just as an OAP (old age pensioner)? Then again, you're American; you don't use that term, do you? Here in Ireland (and in the UK), we use this term to refer to somebody who has retired from the workforce and is drawing a pension, traditionally with people 65 and older. There are other uses for the term, though.
But I ask the question because around where I live, if an elderly person is discovered to come off angry and bitter or otherwise demanding, ultimately coming off the way your grandmother did, they are said to be "pulling off a Chloe." This insulted my grandma because her real name is also Chloe. Her surname isn't Clements, however; it is Johnston. She's nothing like your grandma, but I had to clarify to her that it wasn't her they were talking about, and so, she was not framed for anything. She has problems coping with the modern world as many of the elderly often do, but she's at least willing to learn new things, and she encourages everybody to live life for Jesus as He really intended it. Your grandma, by contrast, had the doctrine all wrong, and kept making it all about her.
In any event, I know you're a busy tiger, but here in the Republic of Ireland, you reign supreme as the nation's favorite rock star, although we love your band as a whole. It gives the rest of us somebody to look forward when your tour Europe, especially when you consider the fact the human performers of your genre have pretty much lost all credibility.
I hope the question has not been offensive to you. I'm sorry if it was.
Signed,
Anna Johnston, age 33 (human being)
Dublin, Leinster, Republic of Ireland
P.S. I'm a Christian, and my parents just converted for the first time. My grandma Chloe was already saved; she got saved at the age of six.
Cripto's response:
Dear Anna:
The boss (Super C) has asked the public to be mindful of their questions because of the fact he dings us for being negative all the time and dwelling on the past. This is why I frequently show him some of the fan mail I get, so that if necessary, he and I can discuss how to reply to it without crossing the line. However, your question was not offensive to me because I see that all you want to do is learn from the mistakes so that the past is not repeated, so we forgive you. Also, thank you for the trivia; I had heard the term OAP before, but wasn't sure what that meant. I usually just use the term "senior citizen" for the elderly. I respect them, and in some cases, they know the best directions to take in life.
Your question was, "Was my grandma the way she was her whole life, or just as an elderly person?" She had issues her whole life to some extent, so I guess the answer is her whole life. It didn't become problematic, however, until she got to be of old age, because she couldn't cope with the loss of her husband when he died. She had always put too much effort into the wrong thing, but in my case, it was all about getting me to live a normal life in the form of working a normal job and playing the piano at her church. (She originally wanted me to be a traveling concert pianist, but gave up that wish when she heard a news story about one that died in a plane crash, and she assumed that would happen to me. Well, I'm not dead.) By no means was I good enough to play at the professional level, let alone the level of the Forsythians. However, I found that the guitar was really the instrument I was born to play, but she kept saying it was to be the piano.
She never gave an explanation as to why she tried to control me so much, but we can all be thankful that in the end, she did make amends with me and with everybody. So her story is a sad one, but with a happy ending.
She eventually confessed she just wanted something to brag about to draw attention to herself, because she thought she had something to gain from the days when I did play piano. Proof of this came when she'd drop by our house unannounced, bringing one or more of her church friends with her, and I'd have to play something to please her because she wanted her friends to hear me. But what did she gain from me playing piano? Absolutely nothing!
Everything has thankfully gone uphill for me since those days, but the good news is that because her church keeps records of conversions and baptisms, Grandma was saved. So we will meet again when we all get to heaven, and what a day of rejoicing that will be.
I thank you for writing to me, and congratulations to your parents for making that life-changing decision. I can tell you I was about seven or eight when I made that decision, so people often ask if I abandoned the faith because I sing as the frontman for Furry Fury. Well, no. I didn't. Our music appeals to the broadest amount of people we can appeal to, but we always keep it clean. But I never really rejected the faith. I just sort of forgot about it. Does that make sense?
Thanks again for your letter, and I wish nothing but the best for you and your family. We (Furry Fury) love traveling when we can, and we know a huge majority of our fans from Europe come from the UK and Republic of Ireland. I think the biggest amount of our fans from nations with languages I can't speak come from Sweden. I don't have to tell you why that is.
Yours truly,
Nathan Knight, a.k.a. CriptoCat (Cripto for short)
Frontman for the rock band Furry Fury
Cripto's thirty-fifth letter. He easily gets the most fan mail of any G-52 or ally to the G-52s.
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Glass Wing: I'm pretty sure Furry Fury has been to my country of Norway. We may not be popular for tourists these days, but certainly we are not that boring as some foreigners claim. We have more beaches than Sweden does.
Chuong: K-pop these days is globally popular. Korea's soft power, their modern cultural power, dominates the world these days. Even though not many speak Korean, we still enjoy whatever Korea has these days.
Chuong: K-pop these days is globally popular. Korea's soft power, their modern cultural power, dominates the world these days. Even though not many speak Korean, we still enjoy whatever Korea has these days.
Cripto: No; we've been to Norway, and we loved every minute of it.
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